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Wednesday, July 07, 2010

20,000 days ago today .. . ..

Posted by Chris Jaffe
Here's a random one for you baseball history fans - 20,000 days ago, for the first and only time, the Brooklyn Dodgers clinched the World Series, in what has scientifically proven to be the eighth greatest World Series Game Seven ever.



History instructor by day, statnerd by night, Chris Jaffe leads one of the most exciting double lives imaginable; with the exception of every other double life possible to imagine. Despite his lack of comic-book-hero-worthiness, Chris enjoys farting around with this stuff. His new book, Evaluating Baseball's Managers is available for order. Chris welcomes responses to his articles via e-mail. Oh, and now he's on twitter.


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bennythedog said...

I’m not a baseball historian so, I was wondering if anyone knew why Mantle didn’t play in this game.  He had a nice year in ‘55 and the other guys in the outfield didn’t seem to be better than him.  Was he hurt?

Just curious…

Posted 07/07  at  05:42 PM
Chris J. said...

Benny,

Interesting - I never noticed that about Mantle.

I can’t say exactly what happened, but it looks like he hurt himself on September 16.  He got a single in the second inning, and was immediately lifted for a pinch runner.  Over the rest of the season, he managed only two appearances as a pinch hitter - that was it.  Mind you, he’d appeared in every previous game on the year (and started all but one before 9/16). 

Probably screwed up his leg or knee running to first on September 16.

Posted 07/07  at  06:52 PM
Magnum said...

Mantle had a torn leg muscle in the ‘55 series, he missed games one, two, five, and six in their entirety.

Just found your blog. I like it.

Posted 07/07  at  10:00 PM
Preston said...

Interestingly enough, it’s also the only World Series game of his career that Jackie Robinson didn’t play in.

Posted 07/08  at  12:29 AM
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